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Microsoft's homepage circa 1994
- OJFord 11y agoThose variable names... `var varSegmentation=0;`
- agumonkey 11y agohungarian typing
- poizan42 11y agoHungarian dynamic typing even - just prefix everything with var.
- Demiurge 11y agoThats pretty funny when taken literal, like this. On the other hand I often do file_str and file_num to help myself.
- agumonkey 11y agoAfter a journey into functional programming where single letter variable is almost the norm, I came back hating this redundancy, but after a while I got to see that variables names will pop up in different places, you might as well stick a bit more information in their name just in case you're missing context deep down the stack or in a commit.
- melloclello 11y agoHoon?
- OJFord 11y agoOnly sort-of! `var intSegmentation` would have been less surprising.
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- vezzy-fnord 11y agogopher.microsoft.com. Excellent. There's also a readme.html with notes on reconstructing this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html
- Kenji 11y agoI cannot navigate the site at all (unless I use the text menu), I always get: Your current User-Agent string appears to be from an automated process, if this is incorrect, please click this link:United States English Microsoft Homepage when I click on the disk. I don't feel like a robot though.
- csixty4 11y agoYou’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it's belly baking in the hot sun, beating it's legs trying to turn it'self over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
- wcchandler 11y agoIt's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
- nsns 11y agoLet me tell you about my mother
- Nickersf 11y agoI believe the point is to demo the homepage only, not the full site.
- curiousjorge 11y agowhat's wrong with my user agent?
- kinard 11y agoIt's from an automated process. Are you an automated process?
- agumonkey 11y agoThe Microsoft games circa 1997 was partially online too. Web Design Nostaligia in full effect.
- clw8 11y agoInternet Explorer was still a year away. Did they add a "Best Viewed with Internet Explorer" button later?
- edward 11y agoAnd in 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19981205060735/http://microsoft.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19981205060735/http://microsoft.c...
- erickhill 11y agoDarn, I was hoping to peruse the old HTML to see how they positioned the links in a fun little table structure. Just a big GIF. Or maybe this was the real deal and they used a Image Map (since removed).
- antod 11y agoThat reminds me of the Publisher 97 method of creating web pages: One full size gif with a small HTML wrapper.
- cleverjake 11y agoimage maps werent even a thing yet! Pretty neat little writeup - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html
- bentcorner 11y ago... and the associated readme with some background info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/discover/1994/readme.html